Two small shaded grey moon tattoos in realism style, one on each of two adjacent fingers of a hand held together against a pale wall.

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Two small moons on adjacent fingers

Realism · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two small moon tattoos sit on the side of adjacent fingers, held close together in the frame. Each moon is rendered in soft grey shading with stippled craters and a darker edge on the left. The pale, plain background keeps the focus on the skin and the ink.

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In the years after the third lander came down on the salt flats of Hesper, the children of the settlement were taught to count the moons with their hands. Two moons hung over the ridge, the greater one pale and cratered, the lesser one dark along its left edge as though a thumb had pressed it. Mother Oyelaran kept the tally on a cord, and every night she tied one knot for each moon that rose.

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Her daughters, Ilse and Tamsin, quarrelled over which moon was theirs. Ilse said the pale one, because it kept the tides honest. Tamsin wanted the dark one, because it hid things well and she had a great many things to hide. One evening they climbed the ridge with a pot of soot ink and a bone needle, and pressed a moon onto the side of each other's finger, so that the two would sit close whenever they reached across the supper table.

Years later the settlement sent a rider to the far pole to ask why the tides had gone wrong. The rider found the sisters old and still quarrelling. Ilse held out her hand. Tamsin laid hers against it, and the two small moons touched, and the tides, the old woman swore, came back to their proper height by morning.

The rider counted the knots on the cord and found one more than there were moons. Asked what it was for, Oyelaran said it was for the night the sisters agreed.

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